Ian Wardell: Philosophical Thoughts

Most people seem to take it for granted that the brain produces consciousness and they surmise this because when the brain is damaged, the p...

At the outset I need to stress that I specifically have in mind the reductive materialism that has prevailed in the West since the birth of ...

Note:  This response is approximately 13,000 words long. I have a shorter version of approximately 5,000 words that I have called A Review ...